COEP Charitable Foundation, USA

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COEP Charitable Foundation, USA

• North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event
• June 9, 2007

Welcome
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COEP Charitable Foundation Activities

• Endowment for Distinguished Alumni Professorship
• Alumni Student Fellowship
• Robot study circle Robocon
• Astronomy club Telescope making workshop
• Assisting a COEP student for her project in USA
• Renovation of badminton courts at Boat club
• Webguru Long distance learning initiative SVC
• Websetu Networking and mentoring SVC

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Endowment for Distinguished Alumni Professorship
(DAP)

• Designed by Dr. Narendra Dahotre
• UT/ORNL Professor of Materials Science and
  Engineering at the University of Tennessee
• Six departments
• Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, E TC,
  Instrumentation, Metallurgy
• 150K investment per department
• Supports the professorship forever
• Includes stipends for Alumni Graduate Fellows
  (GF)
• And funds for lab equipment etc.

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Robot study circle Robocon Contest
Kunal Mulay , Sidharth Garde, Chetan Tonde,
Shrirang Joshi, Aditya Dattawadkar, Aseem
Deodhar, Ravindra Kakade (red cap) ,  Vineet
Bhatawadekar, Shriram Devi, Amey Deshpande,
Pratap Tokekar, Sandesh Gandhi

• Watch video
• http//youtube.com/watch?vC8X-4ETSVOo

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Astronomy club Telescope making workshop
Grinding lenses
Nachiket Gokhale E TC, 3
Trupti Ranka Instru. 4
Measuring focal length
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Assisting a COEP student for her project in USA

• Kshitija Deshpande
• Attended an educational course called Consortium
  for Undergraduate Research and Education in
  Astronomy (CUREA) at Mount Wilson Observatory,
  Pasadena, California

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Renovation of badminton courts at Boat club
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Silicon Valley Chapter Projects
(Picture Volunteers (From bottom left) Nitin
Mhaske, Sameer Vaidya, Sushil Choudhari, Avanti
Ketkar-Ambekar, Tejal Goyani (From top left)
Haripriya Rajagopal, Saket Jamkar, Dinesh
Kanawade, Rahul Dabane, Mandar Waghmode, Mohit
Gundecha, Paritosh Ambekar, Vinay Kakade, Aditya
Kothadiya

• Webguru Long distance learning initiative SVC
• Dr. Haresh Shah http//video.google.com/videoplay
  ?docid-1193820802140829364qwebgurusvchlen
• Dr. Nickil Jakatdar http//video.google.com/video
  play?docid-148950641764862901qwebgurusvchlen
  
• Dr. Nitin Salunkhe http//video.google.com/videop
  lay?docid-2245424318745692023hlen
• Websetu Networking and mentoring SVC
• Form for mentors http//www.coepfoundation.org/web
  setu/mentor_form.doc
• Form for Mentees http//www.coepfoundation.org/web
  setu/mentee_form.doc
• Fill and send to websetu_mentee_at_coepalumni.org

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COEP Charitable Foundation, USA

• North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event
• June 9, 2007

New Project Let's build something together
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• Carnegie Mellon University Carnival
• Show and tell by a student

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• Carnegie Mellon University Carnival

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• Carnegie Mellon University
• Undergrad project

Vacuuformer http//www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/vsn/va
ccuformer.htm Watch the tools used
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• North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event
• June 9, 2007

Let's build something together
Involves hands on technical work
Promotes interaction between current students and
alumni every year (recurring activity)
Is a LOT of fun
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• North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event
• June 9, 2007

Let's build something together

• Sponsor ten technocraft booths/models
• Built by COEP students
• During Arts Crafts Exhibition
• Part of annual social gathering, Regatta
• Six departments and four student clubs
• Astronomy, Robot circle, CIED, Environmental club
• Alumni contribute Rs. 10,000/- for each group
• Students buy raw material and build a model
• Based on a central theme
• Have a competition

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• North-East USA Chapter Alumni Event
• June 9, 2007

Let's build something together

• Example
• Theme Large things made small
• Models
• Bridge, Dam,
• Roller coaster, Ferris Wheel
• Catapult, Cannon
• Windmill, Watermill
• Comet, Rocket